I want to get my hair braided into a ton of tiny braids, but I don't know if it will work...?

I'm young, white, with thick, wavy, shoulder length hair. I've always loved the look of women's hair done all in tons of tiny braids, and also it seems like it'd be very functional (instead of having to brush it all out and "style" it every morning). The thing is, I realize this is traditionally seen on black women and done in hair studios that specialize in working with their hair, which certainly handles and behaves different then mine. I was wondering if anyone had ever done this or braided someone else's, and if it was perfectly possible to do this, or if something about my hair being different would make it not work (maybe slip out of the braids faster, or it'd be less strong and break?) I have a couple places I was thinking about going, but if someone knew for sure this totally wouldn't work, I figured it'd save me the time of stopping in and asking them what they thought about ding it.